A MOBILE app that matches job-seekers to employers has been compared to a dating service for employment.
The app has been launched by Glasgow-based recruitment group Nine Twenty, after a deal with technology entrepreneur Mike Hughes, who is the brains behind the solution.
Mr Hughes’s Hiire business conceived and developed the eponymous app for businesses with small numbers of staff. It has already been adopted by more than 50 employers, predominantly in the hospitality industry in Scotland, and has established a database of more than 1,000 candidates.
Gordon Brown, chief executive of Nine Twenty, said the customised app would allow his company to win new clients. “Mike’s app is a phenomenal breakthrough in matching staff with employers in SMEs and micro-businesses and we intend to use it throughout the country,” he said.
Mr Hughes said Hiire would grow to 20 million users by 2022 and achieve a value of £95 million. “Hiire is designed to remove the frustration and the time-wasting within the recruitment process and ensure that employers can easily source people who are ideally suited to the vacancy,” he said.
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